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County Health Department Advises Property Owners To Test Their Wells Annually

February 17, 2015 Contributor

All of us need clean water to drink. If your family gets drinking water from a private well, do you know if the water is safe? What health risks do you and your family face? Where can you go for help or advice? “Contaminated water can be a threat to your health. If your drinking water comes from a household well, you alone are responsible for assuring that it is safe,” said Jiancheng Huang, Oswego County Public Health Director.

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Save Oswego’s Historic Sites Advocates For Cahill Building

February 16, 2015 Steve Yablonski

The grassroots group Save Oswego’s Historic Sites returned to the council chambers recently to continue the fight to save the former Cahill building. “Now that the property is again available for bids from potential developers, we reiterate our position to the mayor and council to move with caution on this property,” said Mercedes Niess, the group’s spokesperson.

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Oswego VEX Robotics Team Repeats as Northern New York State Champions

February 15, 2015 Contributor

Oswego robotics team won the Northern NY VEX Skyrise State Championship for the second year in a row and now qualifies for the world championship competition. Freezing Code (#9282) is a team of seven local youth (from grades 9-11), which is in its second year of building and programming robots. The team will now have the opportunity to compete against VEX robotics teams from all around the world.

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Oswego Councilor Barlow Denounces Alternate Parking, Demands Re-evaluation

February 15, 2015 Contributor

As winter continues with severe weather and endless amounts of snowfall, city Councilor Billy Barlow (R-Fifth Ward) urges the mayor and councilors to rethink the alternate parking policy and move to a more practical solution. Public outcry continues to increase over the conditions of roadways and congestion of streets, the councilor said. “The alternate parking policy is an utter disaster, enough is enough,” said Barlow. “The conditions of our roadways are in no way a reflection of the DPW’s ability to plow, but a product of a poor parking policy.”

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Assemblyman Will Barclay (left) and Assemblyman Bob Oaks present Officer Jamie Enwright with a State Assembly resolution, congratulating her on recently receiving the SUNY Chancellor's Award.
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SUNY Oswego Police Officer Recognized For Heroic Efforts, Service

February 14, 2015 Contributor

Jamie Enwright, a 20-year member of the SUNY Oswego University Police staff, was presented with a state resolution congratulating her on receiving the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for her many years of dedication and heroic efforts. Assemblyman Will Barclay congratulated Enwright on this great achievement.

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College Officials Take Exception To Drug Ranking

February 13, 2015 Steve Yablonski

A new analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education shows several campuses in the State University of New York system have some of the nation’s highest rates of on-campus drug arrests. According to the data, SUNY Oswego is ranked number 2; something college officials say isn’t completely accurate.

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Video game created by Douglas Lynn of Central Square to be published on Steam

February 13, 2015 Contributor

For the first time, Rochester Institute of Technology’s MAGIC Spell Studios has published a student-developed game on Steam, the world’s largest digital game distribution platform. The team plans to showcase it at the nation’s biggest gaming conference next month. Created by 2014 game design and development graduates Preston Johnson and Doug Lynn, A.V. puts players inside a hostile computer world where they must solve puzzles and avoid detection to survive.

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